Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1887-05-11
FlSND FASHION.
A Few Notes About the Wear of Woman
kind.
Especial Correspondence.


Especial Correspon dence.I
NEW YORK, May g.
Pretty women are wearing red-fiery red
| fusion bonnets this spring. and it would h,
| impossible to tell how becoming these bonnet,
are. In shape they peak up in front, and have
| no trimmings but red wings and knots and
fans of red illusion. For evening wear they
are perfectly irresistible; but they are also
worn in the day on tue promenade and TO,
driving Last year they were greatly il,
vogue i'll Paris Blondes and brunettes alike
find them becoming With black or light
toilet they are extremely beautiful Clever
women who have time and taste can make
their own. Black illusion bonnets are also
much IN favor, and are always pretty and ap-
propriate.
Another Partisan fancy of last summer
has arrived here, and is ''takingn very we'll
That is street gowns of old fashioned alpaca
or brilliantine They call it mohair now.
and import it in brands as fine and beautiful
Us SILK. 1t makes an eininently useful and
very refined order Of outdoor dress of an nm
lretcntious character. 1t sheds dust. keeps
anwrinklcd, ard, if made up with soft, thin
waist lining, is very cool.
Flowers were never displayed in such
beauty and profusiop, and never were so
much worn by young and old. All the bon
nets are trimmed high, straight in front.
Great branches of flowers and wild weeds
and tangled things orertop women's faces.
reaching high into space As usual they are
OF every shape, but the ones peaked up in
front are most in demand being most becom-
ing to most faces.
Black straw hats are trimmed in colors this
season. Not always, of course, but oftener
than with black, and with most coouettish
effect. The more colors on one bonnet This
spring the happier the wearer. Dark blood
red, stone color or pale ecru, with dark green
or green and pink both, are combined in
Seniousiy and effectively. Ladies who trim
their own headSear go about buying a scraD
OF this and scrap of that until their collec-
ton embraces as great variety as grand
mothers work bag. Surahs, black and in
coiors, never were so eminently in STYLE as
now. Their season is the summer. They are
cool. appropriate and always becoming.
They are found in plain and with striped ones
for combination purposes, and are being
bought up with almost fierce haste.
Wash goods are bewilderingly beautiful.
and becoming more stylish all the time For
mouse gowns they are far prettier than any
thing else in summer, and for street wear
many Of them are unsurpassed in beauty and
appropriateness. Soft French materials and
linens in beautiful colors that for delicocv
rival silk, are plentiful and attract buyers by
the score
Short jackets are the favorite general wrap
Tor sturdy street use. For more dressy oc
casions beaded things of extravagant price
are displayed-very lovely Partisan inven-
lions are they. but quite beyond the reach of
the mass Of womanSind who are anxious to
look well.
Hats are high crowned and sometimes wide
h,imined. Most of them are not pretty.
Beauty in millinery all runs to hornets.
Bonnets are ever New York INSTITUTION.
Most ladies are never seen ia hats. They are
reiegated to the shop girls and business
women, who must throw on their headwear
hurrle.ily, to very Young girls, and are also
bought Tor country Wear by city folk and
country folk, too. NAoMI TgEyr